Experienced location manager worked on World War Z, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Harry Potter and Match Point.
UK-based location manager Michael Harm has died unexpectedly in London aged 51.
Harm, who was born in the Netherlands and moved to the UK in the early 1990s, started his career on BBC mini-series You, Me and It before working on features such as Restoration, Bent and My Son The Fanatic.
Harm served as unit manager on UK hits including Elizabeth, Notting Hill, Dirty Pretty Things and Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, before taking on location manager duties for Woody Allen duo Match Point and Scoop.
In 2009 he served as location manager on Jane Campion’s Cannes competition entry Bright Star and Rob Marshall’s musical-romance Nine.
In 2011, Harm renewed scouting for the Harry Potter franchise on Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and in the following year took on Disney juggernaut Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
In recent...
UK-based location manager Michael Harm has died unexpectedly in London aged 51.
Harm, who was born in the Netherlands and moved to the UK in the early 1990s, started his career on BBC mini-series You, Me and It before working on features such as Restoration, Bent and My Son The Fanatic.
Harm served as unit manager on UK hits including Elizabeth, Notting Hill, Dirty Pretty Things and Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, before taking on location manager duties for Woody Allen duo Match Point and Scoop.
In 2009 he served as location manager on Jane Campion’s Cannes competition entry Bright Star and Rob Marshall’s musical-romance Nine.
In 2011, Harm renewed scouting for the Harry Potter franchise on Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and in the following year took on Disney juggernaut Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
In recent...
- 1/25/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The prolific, veteran Bollywood actor Om Puri, best known as the star of British films “My Son the Fanatic” and “East is East,” died yesterday at the age of 66, reported the Indian Express.
Born in in 1950, Puri attended the Film and Television Institute of India as well as National School of Drama, and later made his film debut in the 1976 film “Ghashiram Kotwal.” He quickly followed it up with award-winning performances in films like “Aakrosh” in 1980, for which he won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award, “Arohan” in 1982 and “Ardh Satya” in 1983, for which he won the National Film Award for Best Actor two years in a row.
Besides his many character roles in Bollywood film, Puri also appeared or starred in numerous English and Hollywood films and TV shows as well. He co-starred in 90s American films like “City of Joy,” “Wolf” and “The Ghost and the Darkness.” He...
Born in in 1950, Puri attended the Film and Television Institute of India as well as National School of Drama, and later made his film debut in the 1976 film “Ghashiram Kotwal.” He quickly followed it up with award-winning performances in films like “Aakrosh” in 1980, for which he won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award, “Arohan” in 1982 and “Ardh Satya” in 1983, for which he won the National Film Award for Best Actor two years in a row.
Besides his many character roles in Bollywood film, Puri also appeared or starred in numerous English and Hollywood films and TV shows as well. He co-starred in 90s American films like “City of Joy,” “Wolf” and “The Ghost and the Darkness.” He...
- 1/6/2017
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Narenda Modi, Sachin Tendulkar and Anil Kapoor pay tribute to the celebrated actor.
Famous faces from film, politics and sport have tweeted tributes to Indian actor Om Puri, who died of a heart attack aged 66.
Puri was familiar to audiences in India and worldwide for his roles in East Is East, My Son The Fanatic, Aakrosh, Arohan and Singh Is Kinng.
Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi tweeted: “The Prime Minister condoles the passing away of actor #OmPuri and recalls his long career in theatre and films: Pmo”.
Film star Shah Rukh Khan said: “Gods garden must b beautiful, He always takes the best” Will miss ur laughter over the shared brandy in Berlin. Will miss u lots Omji. Rip”.
Quantico and Barfi! star Priyanka Chopra said: “The end of an era …. The legacy lives on.. Rip #OmPuri”.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar tweeted: “You will live in our hearts forever through the impressions you have left with your...
Famous faces from film, politics and sport have tweeted tributes to Indian actor Om Puri, who died of a heart attack aged 66.
Puri was familiar to audiences in India and worldwide for his roles in East Is East, My Son The Fanatic, Aakrosh, Arohan and Singh Is Kinng.
Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi tweeted: “The Prime Minister condoles the passing away of actor #OmPuri and recalls his long career in theatre and films: Pmo”.
Film star Shah Rukh Khan said: “Gods garden must b beautiful, He always takes the best” Will miss ur laughter over the shared brandy in Berlin. Will miss u lots Omji. Rip”.
Quantico and Barfi! star Priyanka Chopra said: “The end of an era …. The legacy lives on.. Rip #OmPuri”.
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar tweeted: “You will live in our hearts forever through the impressions you have left with your...
- 1/6/2017
- ScreenDaily
The actor was best known in Britain for East Is East and My Son The Fanatic.
Veteran Indian actor and former chairman of India’s National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) has died from a heart attack, aged 66.
Puri was a familiar figure in British cinema due to his roles in films such as Udayan Prasad’s My Son The Fanatic (1997), Damien O’Donnell’s East Is East (1999) - for which he was BAFTA-nominated - and its sequel West Is West, directed by Andy De Emmony in 2010.
He had recently completed filming a role in Gurinder Chadha’s upcoming Viceroy’s House, alongside Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon and Hugh Bonneville.
Born in the north Indian state of Haryana, Puri made his film debut in Ghashiram Kotwal, directed by a collective of ‘parallel cinema’ filmmakers in 1976. He was one of the leading actors of India’s non-mainstream cinema movement of the 1980s and 1990s, with award-winning...
Veteran Indian actor and former chairman of India’s National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) has died from a heart attack, aged 66.
Puri was a familiar figure in British cinema due to his roles in films such as Udayan Prasad’s My Son The Fanatic (1997), Damien O’Donnell’s East Is East (1999) - for which he was BAFTA-nominated - and its sequel West Is West, directed by Andy De Emmony in 2010.
He had recently completed filming a role in Gurinder Chadha’s upcoming Viceroy’s House, alongside Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon and Hugh Bonneville.
Born in the north Indian state of Haryana, Puri made his film debut in Ghashiram Kotwal, directed by a collective of ‘parallel cinema’ filmmakers in 1976. He was one of the leading actors of India’s non-mainstream cinema movement of the 1980s and 1990s, with award-winning...
- 1/6/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Starring Om Puri, Helen Mirren, Manish Dayal, Charlotte le Bon
Directed by Lasse Hallstrom
“Food is memory,” says the doll-like vision of a woman named Charlotte le Bon to our young hero Hasaan, played with a striking sensitivity by the little-known Manish Dayal (where were you hiding, young man?)
If food is indeed memory then this film about food, love, loyalty and ambition would serve us well in the years to come.
I would certainly count The Hundred-Foot Journey among the most visually and emotionally rich films I’ve seen in recent times. Dwelling on the compelling culture of culinary confrontation this finely written and robustly performed film immediately transports us into a world where the taste buds simmer in provocative possibilities opened up in the kitchen and transported to a world beyond the physical.
Director Lasse Hallstrom (The Cider House Rules, Chocolat) excels in creating drama in quaint picture-postcard locales.
Directed by Lasse Hallstrom
“Food is memory,” says the doll-like vision of a woman named Charlotte le Bon to our young hero Hasaan, played with a striking sensitivity by the little-known Manish Dayal (where were you hiding, young man?)
If food is indeed memory then this film about food, love, loyalty and ambition would serve us well in the years to come.
I would certainly count The Hundred-Foot Journey among the most visually and emotionally rich films I’ve seen in recent times. Dwelling on the compelling culture of culinary confrontation this finely written and robustly performed film immediately transports us into a world where the taste buds simmer in provocative possibilities opened up in the kitchen and transported to a world beyond the physical.
Director Lasse Hallstrom (The Cider House Rules, Chocolat) excels in creating drama in quaint picture-postcard locales.
- 8/10/2014
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
The National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) announced the 12 participants selected for the first Directing for Directors Lab, a two week residential program to be held from January 19-31, 2014. The venue finalised for the residential program is Courtyard by Marriott, Bund Garden, Pune.
The full time two week program will be conducted by Udayan Prasad, professor of Directing at the UK’s Nftvs -National Film and Television School and Lfs-London Film School. Prasad is the director of well-known films such as My Son the Fanatic and The Yellow Handkerchief.
The selected participants are:
1. Sadik Ahmed – 7 Stages
2. Vasant Nath – Sebastian wants to Remember
3. Geetha J – A Certain Slant of Light
4. Prabhijit Dhamija – I’m Not There!
5. Kiran Waval – Tada (Crack)
6. Anoop Mathew – Roach
7. Shazia Iqbal – Me vs Ray
8. Amit Agarwal – Ek Lambi Surang (The Long Tunnel)
9. Harsh Narayan – Ye Pyar Na Hoga Kam
10. Vidyasagar Adhyapak – Chitpat
11. Aditya Kelgaonkar – Duniya Hai Ek...
The full time two week program will be conducted by Udayan Prasad, professor of Directing at the UK’s Nftvs -National Film and Television School and Lfs-London Film School. Prasad is the director of well-known films such as My Son the Fanatic and The Yellow Handkerchief.
The selected participants are:
1. Sadik Ahmed – 7 Stages
2. Vasant Nath – Sebastian wants to Remember
3. Geetha J – A Certain Slant of Light
4. Prabhijit Dhamija – I’m Not There!
5. Kiran Waval – Tada (Crack)
6. Anoop Mathew – Roach
7. Shazia Iqbal – Me vs Ray
8. Amit Agarwal – Ek Lambi Surang (The Long Tunnel)
9. Harsh Narayan – Ye Pyar Na Hoga Kam
10. Vidyasagar Adhyapak – Chitpat
11. Aditya Kelgaonkar – Duniya Hai Ek...
- 1/10/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The deadline for applications for the first Nfdc Directing for Directors Lab has been extended to January 8, 2014. The old deadline was December 31, 2013.
Nfdc Directing for Directors Lab, a two week residential program, will be held from January 19-31, 2014.
The full time two week program will be conducted by Udayan Prasad, professor of Directing at the UK’s Nftvs -National Film and Television School and Lfs-London Film School. Prasad is the director of well-known films such as “My Son the Fanatic” and “The Yellow Handkerchief”.
You can apply for the lab with an application fee of ₹ 500/- (Payable by demand draft or wire transfer). Application form is available here.
The program is open to only 12 selected candidates. The course fee of ₹1,50,000 covers food and accommodation.
To know the detailed program and more about mentors, click here.
Nfdc Directing for Directors Lab, a two week residential program, will be held from January 19-31, 2014.
The full time two week program will be conducted by Udayan Prasad, professor of Directing at the UK’s Nftvs -National Film and Television School and Lfs-London Film School. Prasad is the director of well-known films such as “My Son the Fanatic” and “The Yellow Handkerchief”.
You can apply for the lab with an application fee of ₹ 500/- (Payable by demand draft or wire transfer). Application form is available here.
The program is open to only 12 selected candidates. The course fee of ₹1,50,000 covers food and accommodation.
To know the detailed program and more about mentors, click here.
- 1/4/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The National Film Development Corporation of India (Nfdc) is inviting applications for its first Directing for Directors Lab, a two week residential program to be held from January 19-31, 2014.
The full time two week program will be conducted by Udayan Prasad, professor of Directing at the UK’s Nftvs -National Film and Television School and Lfs-London Film School. Prasad is the director of well-known films such as “My Son the Fanatic” and “The Yellow Handkerchief”.
You can apply for the lab with an application fee of ₹ 500/- (Payable by demand draft or wire transfer). Application form is available here.
The program is open to only 12 selected candidates. The course fee of ₹1,50,000 covers food and accommodation.
Submission deadline: 31st December 2013
To know the detailed program and more about mentors, click here.
The full time two week program will be conducted by Udayan Prasad, professor of Directing at the UK’s Nftvs -National Film and Television School and Lfs-London Film School. Prasad is the director of well-known films such as “My Son the Fanatic” and “The Yellow Handkerchief”.
You can apply for the lab with an application fee of ₹ 500/- (Payable by demand draft or wire transfer). Application form is available here.
The program is open to only 12 selected candidates. The course fee of ₹1,50,000 covers food and accommodation.
Submission deadline: 31st December 2013
To know the detailed program and more about mentors, click here.
- 12/12/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Hang around in Calderdale, and you could well end up in a movie. Our Hebden Bridge outpost, Jill Robinson, reels off some the greats
Last year saw the premiere at the Hebden Bridge Picture House of the film A Calder Valley Christmas, with local people (including this outpost of the Northerner) queuing around the block to be among the first to see it. Directed by local film-maker Nick Wilding, the piece combines archive material, reminiscences about bad winters, carols, poems, scenes of local Mummers and other traditions, and monologues by the incomparable Ian Dewhirst MBE. (He actually lives in Keighley, but he tells such a good tale that he is often invited over the hill.) Like all the best films, there is an accompanying song, Christmas in Hebden Bridge, performed by children from local schools.
However, this is by no means the only film to have used the dramatic natural...
Last year saw the premiere at the Hebden Bridge Picture House of the film A Calder Valley Christmas, with local people (including this outpost of the Northerner) queuing around the block to be among the first to see it. Directed by local film-maker Nick Wilding, the piece combines archive material, reminiscences about bad winters, carols, poems, scenes of local Mummers and other traditions, and monologues by the incomparable Ian Dewhirst MBE. (He actually lives in Keighley, but he tells such a good tale that he is often invited over the hill.) Like all the best films, there is an accompanying song, Christmas in Hebden Bridge, performed by children from local schools.
However, this is by no means the only film to have used the dramatic natural...
- 12/20/2011
- by Jill Robinson
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor best known for his part in Potter's The Singing Detective
The actor Badi Uzzaman, who has died from a lung infection aged 72, was perhaps best known for playing the patient in the hospital bed next to Michael Gambon in The Singing Detective (1985). The pair's camaraderie provided some of the lighter moments in Dennis Potter's TV series and showed off Uzzaman's talent for comedic roles. In their scenes together, Gambon (as Philip Marlow) and Uzzaman (as Ali) were shown to share an outsider status, Marlow due to his disfiguring skin condition and Ali due to his race.
Uzzaman again explored British attitudes toward race in Brothers in Trouble (1995), a film directed by Udayan Prasad and based on Abdullah Hussein's novel about the experiences of Pakistani illegal immigrants in Britain in the 1960s. Uzzaman himself was no stranger to the immigrant experience. He was born in Phulpur, in Azamgarh,...
The actor Badi Uzzaman, who has died from a lung infection aged 72, was perhaps best known for playing the patient in the hospital bed next to Michael Gambon in The Singing Detective (1985). The pair's camaraderie provided some of the lighter moments in Dennis Potter's TV series and showed off Uzzaman's talent for comedic roles. In their scenes together, Gambon (as Philip Marlow) and Uzzaman (as Ali) were shown to share an outsider status, Marlow due to his disfiguring skin condition and Ali due to his race.
Uzzaman again explored British attitudes toward race in Brothers in Trouble (1995), a film directed by Udayan Prasad and based on Abdullah Hussein's novel about the experiences of Pakistani illegal immigrants in Britain in the 1960s. Uzzaman himself was no stranger to the immigrant experience. He was born in Phulpur, in Azamgarh,...
- 6/21/2011
- by Tania Ahsan
- The Guardian - Film News
Twelve years on from the hugely acclaimed East Is East comes its sequel, West Is West. Sarfraz Manzoor examines the new directions British-Asian film-makers are taking
Ayub Khan-Din was in his first year at drama school in Salford when his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Khan-Din, the mixed-race son of a Pakistani Muslim father and a white Catholic mother, found that each time he came home, another slab of his mother's memory had disappeared. The past, with all its stories, was slipping into the void, and Khan-Din became determined to try to preserve his parents' history and his own experience of growing up.
Although he was studying to be an actor, Khan-Din started writing. At the time, Asians were rarely glimpsed on screen in the UK unless they were being beaten up by racist skinheads, running corner shops or fleeing arranged marriages. Khan-Din wanted to tell a different story...
Ayub Khan-Din was in his first year at drama school in Salford when his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Khan-Din, the mixed-race son of a Pakistani Muslim father and a white Catholic mother, found that each time he came home, another slab of his mother's memory had disappeared. The past, with all its stories, was slipping into the void, and Khan-Din became determined to try to preserve his parents' history and his own experience of growing up.
Although he was studying to be an actor, Khan-Din started writing. At the time, Asians were rarely glimpsed on screen in the UK unless they were being beaten up by racist skinheads, running corner shops or fleeing arranged marriages. Khan-Din wanted to tell a different story...
- 2/18/2011
- by Sarfraz Manzoor
- The Guardian - Film News
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Bitter Feast"
Directed by Joe Maggio
Released by Mpi Home Video
When a food critic ("Humpday"'s Justin Leonard) takes a butcher knife to the restaurant of a celebrity chef (James LeGros), the chef plots the ultimate revenge in this gory satirical thriller from director Joe Maggio. (My review from the Los Angeles Film Festival is here.)
"Case 39"
Directed by Christian Alvart
Released by Paramount
2010 is probably a year best forgotten by Renee Zellweger, who not only appeared in the execrable "My Own Love Song," which went straight to Netflix, but also this thriller that was filmed in 2006, but didn't see a release until last fall. Zellweger stars as a social worker whose latest case involving a child (Jodelle Ferland) that she believes is a victim of abuse leads to something far more terrifying. Bradley Cooper and Ian McShane co-star.
"Catfish...
"Bitter Feast"
Directed by Joe Maggio
Released by Mpi Home Video
When a food critic ("Humpday"'s Justin Leonard) takes a butcher knife to the restaurant of a celebrity chef (James LeGros), the chef plots the ultimate revenge in this gory satirical thriller from director Joe Maggio. (My review from the Los Angeles Film Festival is here.)
"Case 39"
Directed by Christian Alvart
Released by Paramount
2010 is probably a year best forgotten by Renee Zellweger, who not only appeared in the execrable "My Own Love Song," which went straight to Netflix, but also this thriller that was filmed in 2006, but didn't see a release until last fall. Zellweger stars as a social worker whose latest case involving a child (Jodelle Ferland) that she believes is a victim of abuse leads to something far more terrifying. Bradley Cooper and Ian McShane co-star.
"Catfish...
- 1/5/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Just a few minutes ago we posted five movie clips from the upcoming Kristen Stewart movie The Yellow Handkerchief. We were also provided with 11 high resolution images and the movie poster, so if you’d like to check those out, hit the jump.
Here’s the synopsis we were given:
A love story at its core, The Yellow Handkerchief is about three strangers of two generations who embark on a road trip through post Katrina Louisiana. Along the way, relationships forge and change in a myriad of ways, leading to the possibility of second chances at life and love.
Brett Hanson (William Hurt) dealing with a painful past, crosses paths with Martine (Kristen Stewart), a troubled teenager ,and her new ‘ride’ Gordy (Eddie Redmayne). The trio head out together, each motivated by his/her own reasons: Brett must decide whether he wants to return to the uncertainty of his life...
Here’s the synopsis we were given:
A love story at its core, The Yellow Handkerchief is about three strangers of two generations who embark on a road trip through post Katrina Louisiana. Along the way, relationships forge and change in a myriad of ways, leading to the possibility of second chances at life and love.
Brett Hanson (William Hurt) dealing with a painful past, crosses paths with Martine (Kristen Stewart), a troubled teenager ,and her new ‘ride’ Gordy (Eddie Redmayne). The trio head out together, each motivated by his/her own reasons: Brett must decide whether he wants to return to the uncertainty of his life...
- 1/28/2010
- by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
- Collider.com
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